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Re: I Don't Have to Use Windows



They are correct. The current kernel requires a minimum of 64 Mb of RAM
to run GNOME or KDE. If you use the text interface, your 32 Mb could be
considered to be OK -- but you will have to forgoe the interactive GUI
install screens, and use the text based installation.

This is true (from all of the literature I've seen) of any install using
the new 2.4 kernel.

Peter Schoch

"RAUBER, JOEL" wrote:

Take this for what its worth (free advice?)

I tried to load an allegedly easy to install Linux on a PentiumIII machine
(32Mb Ram) and ran into troubles, which still aren't resolved. I basically
gave up.

It was Mandrake 7.1 Linux. There Tech support suggested that I may need
more memory. The install basically ran rather smoothly through a set of
dialog boxes until I reached one that basically was frozen.

I've talked to many people who claim to have had little trouble with
installations (other versions than the one I tried)

Joel Rauber

-----Original Message-----
From: Shapiro, Mark [mailto:mshapiro@EXCHANGE.FULLERTON.EDU]
Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2001 10:04 PM
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Subject: Re: I Don't Have to Use Windows


Dear Paul,

Don't be afraid to try out Linux. The new distributions
(RedHat 7.1 and
several of the others) are as easy to load as Windoze. Check
the net for
your local Linux Users Group. They will be happy to help.

Mark Shapiro
http://www.IrascibleProfessor.com


-----Original Message-----
From: Paul O. Johnson
To: PHYS-L@lists.nau.edu
Sent: 8/1/2001 7:46 PM
Subject: I Don't Have to Use Windows

Hugh Haskell <hhaskell@MINDSPRING.COM> uses the signature:

Let's face it. People use a Mac because they want to,
Windows because
they have to..

I've smiled for years whenever I read this at the end of Hugh's
messages. I was a Mac disciple for 10 years -- from the year the Mac
Plus came out till the year after Windows 95 came out. I was
an officer
in the local Dallas Mac Users Group, I edited the newsletter for our
Mac Users Group at work, I helped new users get up to speed
on the Mac.


When it was time for me to upgrade my Mac in the mid 90s, I discovered
that Windows 95 was almost as easy to use as the Mac OS, I could get a
Pentium machine with Win95 for much less than a new top-of-the-line
Mac, and there were many more applications to run under Windows. So I
switched.

I regretted my decision for the two years I used Win95. It crashed
weekly and I had to reinstall it every few months. But when I switched
to WinNT 4.0 I discovered better stability than I ever knew
on the Mac.
Now I use Win2K and it's even more stable.

I hate to say it, but I really believe the remaining Mac afficionados
are fighting a losing battle. Even though Mac OS X has gotten good
reviews, I'm afraid the Apple line is dying out.

This is not to say that I have a great deal of love for Microsoft. I
plan to switch to Linux whenever I can get up the nerve.

Paul O. Johnson

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